Ship Firefox 4, 5, 6 and 7 in the 2011 calendar year (wiki.mozilla.org)

You know, if they want to keep up with Chrome, they could just skip 5 through 9 and go directly to 10.

Wait, that sounds familiar...

Gentlemen, we cannot allow a version number gap!

heh I don't take them serious anymore until FF 4 comes out of beta..

I like how they don't know what is going to be in Firefox 7, but they know they are shipping it this year.

Reminds me of a quote from years ago:

I don't know what we are building yet, but we are building it in Sybase with stored procedures. – I think ultimately every man, woman, and child in the US lost $0.50 to that project.

"Four technology shipment vehicles in 2011"

Why not do the Slackware move, and just skip straight to 7?

More discussion at: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2189121

Since my company is building a plugin/extension for firefox, news like this makes me shudder.

I think this is way more interesting than high version numbers: "Process-per-tab to mitigate effects of crashes"

This is really quite silly. The addons.moz site will have to be modified to deal with version increases as well as extension authors will have to start paying serious attention to version bumps or users will either end up with non-working addons (due to incompatible version numbers) or having to overrider the compat check (how many people do you know that aren't technical that know how to do that)?

> every contributor gets equal say on issues of user interface design and technology prioritization

This must by why they shipped those abominable Personas.

should just ship Firefox 2011, instantly beating Chrome 9 by 2002!